I got that first record out, it came out in '47... Then my name began to ring around. I began to take over. From that point, I tell you, Chicago was in my hand, all the more time that those guys had to listen to me.

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it.

I got your strand of hair, I kiss it day and night.

I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.

Ain't nobody's business, if I bark like a dog.

My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right